The truth is that at both LANL and LLNL your elected officials are
fighting to keep the labs for-profit. We all know what a disaster
for-profit management is for science, good management, the workforce,
and even the nuclear weapons work, but there is money to be had in
taxing a for-profit and for local and state government that is much more
important than even the hundreds of jobs that were lost when the labs
went to for-profit management. Try talking to one of your elected
representatives about it. They don't care hundreds of jobs were lost;
they claim they want good paying jobs but those jobs didn't and don't
matter. They will do anything and everything in their power to keep the
for-profit management. Until we get them under control, we aren't going
to get a better management model and even if by some miracle we get
non-profit contractors to run the labs, how are you going to get rid of
the absolute disaster managers who are now everywhere at the labs?
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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February 26, 2016 at 1:27 PM
To the rest of the country, the idea that a few people working on something really obtuse like nuclear weapon refurbishment programs are "keeping us safe" is a real stretch, and not many would like to spend many taxpayer dollars on it. Try to keep your relative unimportance to the country as a whole in perspective.
February 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM
Not for much longer, I predict. NNSA has always considered WFO to be a major headache, and has resented that other agencies get a free ride on facility and infrastructure costs. Plus, LDRD has always been a corrupt boondoggle.